Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 29

Births

• 1737 - Thomas Paine, American patriot (d. 1809) (pictured)
• 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• 1860 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
• 1880 - W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
• 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
• 1945 - Tom Selleck, American actor
• 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, American producer, actress, and publisher

Deaths

• 1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
• 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
• 1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)